| List of Names as written on the Plan |
Various modes of Spelling the same Names |
Authority for those modes of Spelling |
Situation | Descriptive Remarks, or other General Observations which may be considered of Interest |
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| Hexham | Hexham | Wrights History of Hexham | 20 Miles West | Hexham is a market town with | ||
| Hexham | Mr Joseph Fairless | of Newcastle | a population of about 4600-the weekly Market | |||
| Hexham | Plan of the Manor | is held on Tuesday & it has also two annual | ||||
| fairs – Hutchinson in his View of Northumberland | ||||||
| States that it "Is a place of great antiquity | ||||||
| Bede called it Hungustald, by the old | ||||||
| English Saxons it was called Hextoldesham | ||||||
| & some Authors (particularly Camden) [say] | ||||||
| it is the Axelodunum of the Romans" | ||||||
| The antiquities are all shown & pointed | ||||||
| the township of Hexham is said to be | out in their proper places- | |||||
| divided into four Wards or districts which | Wright in his history describes it very | |||||
| are only used for the election of Churchwardens | properly as "an irregularly built town | |||||
| the Boundaries |
the streets are narrow & almost all | |||||
| they also are in detached pieces & as they could | of them are formed on a descent | |||||
| be but very imperfectly pointed out | ||||||
| the names are omitted on the OS plans | ||||||
| Henry Farr c/a | ||||||
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Transcribed by CTW and PW
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